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What is The News : a User's Manual about?
With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the famous?
- Author
- De Botton, Alain, author
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241972694
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Social Science, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.56 / 5 (48 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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